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Heresy, drugs and the Bermuda Form

  • Ince & Co LLP
  • -
  • Bermuda, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 28 2013

In AstraZeneca Insurance Company Limited v XL Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd & Anor, XL Insurance and Ace Bermuda obtained judgment against AstraZeneca

Insurance review 2012

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 10 2013

2012 has been a year of stark contrasts. The euphoria of the Jubilee and the Olympics provided a very welcome diversion to the continued hardship

Top tips for defending noise induced hearing loss claims

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 29 2012

The Supreme Court decision in Baker v Quantum Clothing Ltd 2011 was seen as having prevented the opening of the floodgates of industrial deafness claims

A commercial insurance alternative to the NHS litigation authority for personal injury claims brought against Foundation Trusts

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 30 2012

30 July 2012An interview with Mark RileyPitt of RK Harrison Insurance ServicesThe NHS is constantly under public scrutiny regarding the rising cost of claims brought against Foundation Trusts, more so currently given the challenges the NHS faces to reduce costs in accordance with the Nicholson Challenge

Fraud should not pay

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 8 2012

A Google search for “medical negligence claims” returned 2,200,000 results

Trial care in the community: an even playing field?

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 29 2012

Interim payment awarded to enable Claimant to move from residential care home for a trial care regime in his own accommodation; doing so would not prejudice the Defendant by rendering the “level playing field” uneven

Is causation an issue of liability or quantum?

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 25 2012

In the recent case of Andrew Graham Young v Dr Ho Chun Kit Peter HCPI15832010, the court held that although causation is traditionally thought of as an issue of liability, it can be still be considered a quantum issue and can be dealt with at an assessment of damages hearing, rather than a full trial

Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill under fire by House of Lords

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2012

At the House of Lords Committee stage, Part 1 of LASPO - relating to the reforms of legal aid - proved the most controversial

Interim payments: a conservative approach

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 30 2012

When added to two previous interim payments, a third interim payment to allow for building works to a property and pay for care and therapy requirements, did not exceed 90 per cent of the capital sum likely to be awarded at trial

Pleural plaques legislation

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 24 2011

Axa and other insurers failed once again in their challenge to the Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) (Scotland) Act 2009 which makes pleural plaques an actionable injury in Scotland, reversing the effect of the House of Lords’ decision in Rothwell v Chemical and Insulating Co Ltd

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